The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-12
FLORIDA,

The Pioneer Mill, at Carrabele, has re-
ceived an automatic GUNNER.
Leon county merchants say that the
farmers are paying up old accounts right
| along.
John Theobald, of Apalachicola, hauled
| in twenty seven fine trout last Wednesday
in about an hour.
Messrs Floyd & Estes, of Apalachicola.,
expect the arrival of their steam launch
| some time next week.
Tallahassee Methodists are holding pro
! tracted meeting Rev. Mr.. Mcintosh, of
Apalachicola is assisting Rev. Mr.. Part
ridge.
The Cuban daily III Pueblo, of Key West,
has suspended publication. Editor Delga-
do, however, hopes to revive it shortly as
weekly, if nothing more.
At Waukeenah there has been such rush
of business during the last few weeks that
the merchants have been compelled to
employ additional clerks.
The big factory building of Manufacturer
Toledo, on White street, Key West, md
way between the Rocky Road and Salt
| Ponds, is rapidly approaching completion.
The Baptist churches of Escambia, Wal
ton and Santa Rosa counties met at Pensa
cola yesterday, for the purpose of forming
an association for the three counties men
toned.
A gentleman of Chattanooga, Tenn, in
conjunction with capitalists from Pennsyl-
| vania, is corresponding with gentleman III
Apalachicola to learn the advantages for the
opening Of a bank
1t is said that the steamer Aid, now of
Apalachicola, will be taken to Mobile to
run in conjunction with the Merchants and
Traders line. Of which Capt. Henry Moore
| is the general agent.
7. j. Roberts e. Son have bought of w.
r. Wilson the property on which their
stables and office is located at Tallahassee.
1t was on this spot of ground that Mr.. Will
son was born and it was with great reluct-
ance that he parted with it.
L. D. Shocks, of the Brush Electric Com
pany, is in Tallahassee trying to organize
joint stock company to light Tallahassee by
electricity. The City Council held a call
meeting Monday and agreed to appropri-
ate $500 to pay for four lights SIX months.
Sheriff Bird, of jefferson county, was
kept quite busy last week, and was very
successful in bringing violators of the law
before the court. On Wednesday evening
it was discovered that Monticello was in"
Tested by gang of negro thieves, who
were successfully plying their avocation.
There were four of the villains, and now
three occupy quarters in the jail
A family in Orlando owns a setter pup
which is allowed to come into the house
Thursday member of the family procured
the book known as "Letters from He'll"
and happening to leave it within reach of
the pup, along with other books. he delib-
erately took it from the pile and tore it up.
No other book has been injured, and no at
tempt was made by the dog heretofore to
destroy anything.
The steamer Governor Stafford, intended
for Capt. Louis Pierce's Miami Line, arrived
at Key West Saturday from jacksonville,
via Miami and intermediate points. She is
owned by the Gulf Coast Steamboat Com
pany, at Cedar Keys, was built at VIII
mington, Del, in 1884, by Pusey q Jones, is
1876 feet long by 20 feet beam, and pro-
nounced by those best acquainted with her
qualities as quite seaworthy.
Notice is given of the restoration of the
20, 'O0-acre Aredondo grant, near Lake City.
to the public domain. On Jan. Is, 1888,
at Q a. m, the lands embraced in the above
named grant will be subject to entry under
the homestead and presumption laws of the
United States, preference being given to all
persons who may furnish evidence satsfac-
tory that they are bona fide actual residents
upon the land they seek to enter or file upon.
In stock and awaiting shipment at Pensa-
cola and vicinity there are at the present
time nearly 5000 900 feet of lumber. OF this
amount the larger firms are carrying about
81 800 900 feet, distributed as follows
Muscogee Lumber Company, 100000;
Chatfln 81 Co, 100000; Simpson & Co,
S,000000; Choctawhatchie Luni Der Com
pany, 100000; George W. Wright & Co.,
100000; Brent & Co., 100000; Robinson
& Co., 2,j00,000.
Leesburg claims that Umatilla leaves the
impression that in a convention of the
whole people of Lake county assembled
there that Tavares was the popular choice
for the county seat whereas it was only
convention of the people Of the east side of
the lakes, who were favorable to Tavares as
the county seat. Leesburg is in the race to
win, and proposes to do do so on the princi-
pie of justice and fairness to all competitors
and misrepresentation to none.
From a small patch of four acres William
Roberts, of Tallahassee, has cut this year
four crops of most excellent hay. The first
cutting turned out 81, $50 pounds, the second
cutting ~ 800 pounds, the third crop was
rather small owing to drought but made
| 800 pounds. The total production is 63. $50
pounds. Northern hay not one whit better
than this is selling in the local market at 81
| per hundred pounds, but we will put this at
! roc per hundred a fair estimate and it foots
up $476 Is or STA IA per acre-nearly as
much as three bales of cotton would bring
and made with less than half us much work.
| At Brooksville, owing to the absence of
several witnesses for the prosecution, the
! preliminary hearing of the prisoners held
| for assassinatng Hollyfield was postponed
until yesterday The defense win probably
attempt to prove that the skeleton that has
been discovered is not that of Hollyileld:
possibly that it is, and that he died OF alco-
holism, and therefore the principal link of
the chain of the circumstantial evidence is
missing. A week has passed since the ar
rests, aud the excitement that first prevailed
has given way to the belief that there is
nothing in the case and that the prisoners
! will be released From the number of con
ferences of citizens with the prisoners, it is
expected that some Of them will testify as to
whose remains the skeleton is, or that they
| will testify that the remains are really those
of Hollyileld, but that he died from exces-
sive drinking and exposure. 1t is conceded
that the case revolves upon the skeleton for
or against the prisoners.
Worth Reading.